2024 7th International Conference on Computing and Big Data(ICCBD 2024)
Prof. Fairouz Kamareddine
Heriot-Watt University, UK
Biography: Professor of Theoretical Computer Science in Heriot-Watt University in Scotland. Fairouz Kamareddine has been involved in a number of worldwide consultancy assignments, especially on education and research issues working for United Nations and the EU. Her research interest includes Interface of Mathematics, Logic and Computer Science. She has held numerous invited positions at universities worldwide. She has well over 200 published articles and a number of books. She has played leading roles in the development, administration, and implementation of interdisciplinary, international, and academic collaborations and networks.
Assoc. Prof. Wei Wang
Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool
University, China
Biography: Dr. Wei Wang is a senior associate professor at the Department of Computing, School of Advanced Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Nottingham in 2009. He then worked as a lecturer at the University of Nottingham (Malaysia Campus) and later a post-doctoral research fellow at the Centre for Communication Systems Research (now known as the Institute for Communication Systems) at the University of Surrey, UK. His research interests lie in the broad area of data and knowledge engineering; in particular, deep learning and natural language processing, knowledge discovery from textual data, social media data and smart city data processing, and semantic search. He has published more than 70 papers in reputed journals (e.g. IEEE TKDE, IEEE TNNLS, IEEE IoTj, IEEE TSG, IEEE TETCI, ELSEVIER INS, and ELSEVIER IF) and conferences in the areas knowledge discovery, information sciences and Internet of Things.
Assoc. Prof. Dong Huang
South China Agricultural University, China
Biography: Dong Huang received the B.S. degree in computer science in 2009 from South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China. He received the M.Sc. degree in computer science in 2011 and the Ph.D. degree in computer science in 2015, both from Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China. He joined South China Agricultural University in 2015, where he is currently an Associate Professor with the College of Mathematics and Informatics. From July 2017 to July 2018, he was a visiting fellow with the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research interests include data mining and machine learning. He has published more than 70 papers in international journals and conferences, such as IEEE TKDE, IEEE TNNLS, IEEE TCYB, IEEE TSMC-S, IEEE TETCI, ACM TKDD, SIGKDD, AAAI, and ICDM. He was the recipient of the 2020 ACM Guangzhou Rising Star Award.
Assoc. Prof. Lei Chen
Shandong University, China
Lei Chen received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from Shandong University, Jinan, China, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He is currently an Associate Professor with the School of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong University, China. His research interests include image processing and computer vision, visual quality assessment and pattern recognition, machine learning and artificial intelligence. He was the principal investigator of projects granted from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, etc. He has published more than 40 papers on top international journals and conferences in recent years including IEEE TIP, Signal Process., ICME, etc. He was awarded the Future Plan for Young Scholars of Shandong University. He served for many international conferences including the ICIGP 2021, CSAI2022, MLCCIM2022, and ICIVC 2023 as Program Chair, Technical Chair or Publicity Chair.